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...Status Symbol. The child classics run from Dean Swift to Tom Swift, from Defoe and his immortal castaway to Mark Twain's raft, adrift forever on the Mississippi. Alice is still in Wonderland, and the Ancient Mariner is there to remind the buyer that man was a poet before he learned prose and that a child who is fobbed off with baby-talk doggerel is not only being robbed but nudged into the cozy horrors of the remedial-reading set. Treasure Island and The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle may still be bought, and it is a good thing...
Sunday morning John White Webster, Professor of Chemistry and Mineralology at Harvard, appeared at the Parkman identified himself as the visitor who had stopped by Friday morning to remind Parkman of his appointment. The engagement had been kept; Webster said he had paid the good doctor $483.64 for a mortgage Parkman had on his mineral collection. "I told Dr. Parkman," he said, "that he hadn't discharged the mortgage; to which he replied, 'I will see to that. I will see to that.' He then went very rapidly from the room...
ORESTES OR THE ART OF SMILING, by Domenico Gnoli (71 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $6.95). Domenico Gnoli is an artist whose pen drawings for his charming fable (about a prince who did not know how to smile) remind one a little of Cruikshank's, and a lot of Domenico Gnoli's. The book is for children and wise adults...
...uncles descended on President Balaguer at the presidential palace to remind him that he had once been a complacent Trujillo stooge and had better be again. By now, twelve U.S. warships boldly stood to in clear sight of the capital. Balaguer was not alone. General Rodriguez rounded up the support of several armed forces commanders by telephone, sent his planes to strafe four reluctant garrisons in the interior...
...mollified than the makers of cotton cloth and yarn and clothing began to moan. "All those foreigners," they wailed, "are buying our country's cheap cotton and making it into cheap goods and sending them back here to eat up our markets." (The clothmakers were careful not to remind the President that his country earned much more money selling cotton and cloth to the foreigners than it spent on the cloth it bought from them...